| The great transformation |
|
The impact of global climate change is not limited to specific areas of our lives. With its social, cultural, economic and psychological implications, climate change represents a shift towards a new era, which concerns all levels of the global community: markets and mindsets, global cooperations and democracy. To embrace this complexity the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen (KWI), Stiftung Mercator in cooperation with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy hosted the international academic conference THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION - CLIMATE CHANGE AS CULTURAL CHANGE ****************************** Conference documentation:Please find presentations and texts of the speakers in the Program Section where all available presentations and texts are posted. ******************************Pictures from the conference: (more pictures are available in the Photo Documentation Section) All rights reserved by Stiftung Mercator / Photographer: David AusserhoferOpening Session (June 8, 2009)(Speakers in order of appearance)  Dr. Bernhard Lorentz, President of the Stiftung Mercator, welcomes the participants.  Prof. Dr. Manfred Fischedick, Vice-President of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.  Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, who hosts the conference together with Stiftung Mercator.  Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber CBE, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) held the introduction on “Transitions and Transformations”.  Prof. Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon from the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in Canada held the keynote on “Climate Change and the Renewal of Civilisation”.  Participants after the discussion. |